Comment by wrs
4 days ago
I think you misread the article. The skepticism isn’t about whether it happened. It’s about whether it’s a reason for models to be locked behind “trusted partner” firewalls. Offensive hacking capabilities are the same as defensive. Hugging Face had to use a Chinese model to defend against this because they weren’t allowed to use OpenAI models to do it.
Ok, fair. I know that was also in the article, but your comment made me reread it, and I think you're right about the focus. I over-fixated on the headline. On second read, it's more like a lazy way to justify a preconceived idea that all models should be available and unconstrained to everyone (or everyone who might get attacked, at least, but that's approximately everyone.)
Updated tl;dr: "There are incentives for OpenAI to say that AI is powerful and dangerous, therefore fully unconstrained AIs should be available to everyone."
It's still more of a statement of belief than a logical argument.